I see you found our IRC channel. Unfortunately I was AFK at the time. I like your idea to use Discourse for the forum replacement and have considered it myself. I've contacted them as an open source community asking for them to host our forums! Hopefully they get back to me.

I can publish from that git repo very easily so you can contribute simply by forking the site and making any changes there for us to review. As far as look and feel of the site I will leave it up to your creative direction. Even small tweaks would be beneficial.

Welcome to the FIFE community! You are right that there has been little activity in FIFE We would like to change that though and are currently looking for new developers who want to help out. We need help in many areas (including web development) and I'm sure UH has a lot of stuff to do as well. Feel free to post here or ask any questions in IRC. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Oh yes.. completely doable if we implement the proper shaders (not a simple task). We may need to update the map format as well to support some additional parameters and we may need to produce more art assets (height maps perhaps?) but yeah, it's definitely doable if we had the developers to implement it.